School Superintendent-DeKalb

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- The leading candidate for the top job withthe DeKalb County school district has withdrawn from consideration. School board chairman Tom Bowen told The AtlantaJournal-Constitution that Lillie Cox told school officials Saturdaythat she was no longer interested in the job. Cox was negotiatingwith the board to become the next superintendent of the97,000-student school district. Bowen said Cox's decision was in part due to media coverage ofher contract negotiations. Cox is superintendent of the4,440-student Hickory Public Schools in North Carolina. DeKalb County in metro Atlanta is one of the state's largestschool districts. The district is trying to replace formerSuperintendent Crawford Lewis, who was fired just before he wasindicted on charges he ran a criminal enterprise in the schoolsystem.

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